Race details | |
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Date | September |
Region | Hokkaido, Japan |
English name | Tour of Hokkaido |
Local name(s) | ツール・ド・北海道 (in Japanese) |
Discipline | Road |
Competition | UCI Asia Tour 2.2 |
Type | Stage race |
Organiser | Tour de Hokkaido Association |
Web site | www |
History | |
First edition | 1987 |
Editions | 33 (as of 2022) |
First winner | Matsuyoshi Takahashi (JPN) |
Most wins | Daisuke Imanaka (JPN) (3 wins) |
Most recent | Yusuke Kadota (JPN) |
The Tour de Hokkaido is an annual professional road bicycle racing stage race held in Hokkaido, Japan since 1987 as part of the UCI Asia Tour. It is rated by the International Cycling Union (UCI) as a 2.2 category race.
The event for 2018 was canceled due to the earthquake which occurred the day before the race. In 2020 and 2021, the race was canceled due to COVID-19 pandemic.
In 2023, a traffic accident that caused the death of a participant forced the interruption of the 1st stage in midway and the cancellation of the following stages of the event.[1][2]